title: Preventing obesity in the primary care setting.
abstract: This article outlines steps on how to move the treatment of obesity to a new paradigm of prevention in the primary care setting. Almost all Americans visit their primary care physician or health care provider for routine health maintenance or some unexpected illness or sickness at one point or another. The primary care office is the most likely entry point to the health care system for most of the population and should be the preferred venue for addressing chronic disease prevention. Prevention in the primary care setting is the short- and long-term solution to obesity.
authors.affiliation: Department of Family Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1919 West Taylor Street, Room 159, Chicago, IL 60612, USA. sgrief@uic.edu
authors.forename: Samuel N
authors.initials: SN
authors.lastname: Grief
authors.forename: Kathleen S
authors.initials: KS
authors.lastname: Talamayan
mesh_terms: D001067:Appetite Depressants / Q000627:therapeutic use; D003376:Counseling; D004032:Diet; D015444:Exercise; D006801:Humans; D009765:Obesity / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000628:therapy; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000379:methods; D011320:Primary Health Care; D011322:Primary Prevention / Q000379:methods*; D017010:Reminder Systems; D012307:Risk Factors; D014481:United States
chemical_list: D001067:Appetite Depressants